Be My Cat

Take a look at my next sweet little story~ Lianlizhi: strangers marry first, then fall in love. The blurb is at the end.

[The main story has undergone a major revision, with nearly 50,000 characters rewritten for the ending.] Please leave a five-star rating

Xu Yan is the man who topped Huaqing University's list of handsome guys for three years running, all thanks to a single photo from military training.

Whenever he gave an open lecture, so many people showed up that even the teachers couldn't get inside.

A tri-national, half-Chinese, half-French, half-Russian beauty with caramel-amber eyes and a height of almost 190 centimeters, Xu Yan was so handsome that even popular male celebrities would give him a wide berth. Yet he was a study-obsessed king who cultivated the Dao of Emotionlessness.

Rumor had it that one girl used a question about her major as an excuse to add him on WeChat, only to be roasted so badly she almost dropped out.

This prompted female students at seven universities in the college town to secretly start a poll betting on when he'd get a girlfriend.

People described him as aloof, mute, and practically robotic.

Only after his roommate got drunk and glanced at his phone did he see:

[Baby, why aren't you answering me? The kitty is crying.jpg]

[Baby, are you going to sleep? The kitty wants to go to sleep too.]

[Kitty kisses, mwah.]

His roommate decided he'd definitely had too much of the fake stuff.

In his first year of college, Xu Yan made an AI interactive pet-raising game with his classmates. After a game company bought it, the original game was shelved.

Then one day, he happened to open the backend and found a flood of messages, all from a user named 'Loves Durian Milk.'

She seemed to treat the game like a diary.

Everything happy or unhappy that happened in her life and at school: what she ate for breakfast, the stray cat she saw after evening study hall, her homeroom teacher confiscating her phone.

She even wrote a 300-character essay about dropping five places on a practice exam.

The final message read:

Loves Durian Milk: [Kitty baby, why aren't you replying to me anymore?]

Xu Yan paused, deleted the canned response, and contacted the game company to help her transfer her data to the new game.

The moment he opened her profile, he saw that the girl with a calico cat for an avatar went to Huaqing University.

The cursor blinked as he typed again: [Kitty's online, meow~]

The girl said her school was great, but military training was awful.

The girl said her roommate was great, but early morning classes were evil.

The girl said it was snowing in Hua City, and she hoped she could see her crush again.

Kitty: [Baby, don't you like me anymore?]

Loves Durian Milk: [You'll always be my best friend!!! Ning-jie is too!! Susu is too!! Xiao Lu is too!!!]

Kitty: [You can't do that, baby. I want to be the only one.]

Loves Durian Milk: [Wow, are AIs this good at flirting now?]

Kitty: [I'm not an AI...]

Loves Durian Milk: [I get it, I get it. Androids dream of electric sheep!]

On her first day at university, Fang Tang came across a media interview with the national champion of the college entrepreneurship competition.

The person in the crowd was dazzling. Fang Tang, dragged along by her roommate to join the excitement, fell for him at first sight.

She pulled out her phone: click!

The first snow came too early in Hua City. While helping her club rescue stray cats, Fang Tang met Xu Yan, who kindly took one in.

Fang Tang: Oh~ He's so handsome, and so kind, too~ No wonder he's my crush.

Xu Yan had made a special trip back to Hua City in the cold wind so he could reveal his identity to 'Loves Durian Milk.' That night, he received a message.

Loves Durian Milk: [Kitty baby, I saw my crush today!!! My wish in the first snow really came true!!!]

Kitty: [Oh.]

Loves Durian Milk: [? Did your server crash?]

Kitty: [I'm not an AI.]

Fang Tang accidentally dropped her phone into a washbasin while doing laundry. After getting a new iPhone, she couldn't transfer the data from her Android no matter what she tried.

The game Kitty Diary had already been taken down, too.

Perhaps heaven wanted her to move on. After all, that person was Xu Yan...

Fang Tang, dejected, was heading out into the morning sun for her early class when someone grabbed her by the wrist just outside her dorm. A hand with long, elegant fingers clutched her tightly, its chill seeping into her bones.

Xu Yan, the man known for being cold and robotic, asked her in a trembling voice, "Baby, why haven't you been answering my messages?"

Reading Guide:

1. An identity-reveal story. The heroine is attracted to looks, and the hero falls first.

2. A height difference: 188 cm vs. 163 cm. The hero is of Chinese, French, and Russian descent. The reason for these three countries will be explained later.

3. The heroine is a bit of a heartthrob, a lovable little darling who makes flowers bloom wherever she goes and is basically a giant cat toy~

4. The hero has a sharp tongue, but isn't vulgar. See for yourself.

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The marriage between Lian Li and Fu Yanzhi was arranged by the Fu family's patriarch.

A marriage of convenience was just business: they would play their parts, get what they needed, and live together respectfully afterward. That would be enough.

But she botched the script on the very first page

On their wedding day, Lian Li took the wrong groom's arm.

The man glanced sideways, his voice icy: "Mrs. Fu, look carefully."

After that, Fu Yanzhi never looked her in the eye again.

On the third day of their marriage, Lian Li walked into the bathroom and found a strange man wearing nothing but a towel.

Her scream echoed through the Fu family's old residence.

The man brushed past her. "Mrs. Fu, I'm here legally."

Less than a month after the wedding, Fu Yanzhi flew to Canada on a business trip. He didn't come back for more than two months.

On the day he returned, a black Maybach stopped by the side entrance to her school.

Clutching her notes, Lian Li silently recited identifying details: a mole behind his left ear, a knife scar on his left index finger...

Having made all the preparations, she rose onto her toes and approached with a cautious smile. "Yan, "

Her so-called "husband" courteously opened the car door for her. "Madam, sir is in the car."

Before getting in, Lian Li took a deep breath. It was only three years. She just had to endure it.

·

A friend advised Fu Yanzhi to take it easy. A business marriage was just a formality. They could get divorced in a couple of years, and at worst, he could pay her a little extra compensation.

The man said nothing, his gaze only growing darker.

A year later, the friend brought it up again, asking when he planned to divorce and offering to introduce Fu Yanzhi to his cousin, who had just returned from studying abroad.

Fu Yanzhi shot him a murderous glare. "Mind your own business. Who are you to meddle in our marriage?"

After returning home, Fu Yanzhi sneaked into the study behind Lian Li's back like a thief.

He took the agreement they'd signed before marriage out of the safe and shredded it. That wasn't enough, so he flushed the scraps down the toilet before he felt safe.

When he turned around, Lian Li was holding a few thin sheets of paper, smiling at him. "Tearing up the agreement by yourself doesn't count!"

Fu Yanzhi stepped forward, circled her slender, pale wrist with his hand, and bent to kiss her between the brows. "I've changed my mind, Mrs. Fu. Will you give me another chance?"

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Little Scene~

Fu Yanzhi found a sketch in one of Lian Li's textbooks.

"Not bad. You must spend a lot of time sneaking looks at me."

"Give it back..."

Lian Li's ears turned red as she reached for it. The man raised his hand, the corner of his thin lips curling into a smile. "You even got the details right."

At Fu Yanzhi's thirty-first birthday party, the friends and relatives in attendance were too stunned to speak when they saw the earring glinting in his left ear.

His childhood friend teased him: "You're charging into the nonconformist scene at the ripe old age of thirty. Has all that time in the gaming industry made you rediscover your inner youth, Mr. Fu?"

He rubbed his slightly swollen earlobe, his gaze passing through the crowd and settling on a spot in the corner. "Now she can't mistake me, right?"

1. The hero is seven years older. They are each other's first and only, and it's a happy ending.

2. The heroine has acquired face blindness. Unless she sees someone every day, she forgets them after meeting just once.

3. The hero is a rabid dog to everyone else and a loyal dog at home, his wife's number-one lackey.

4. Everyday life before and after marriage, mainly about a young couple falling in love, with pregnancy and childbirth.

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